We’re pleased to announce the release of the Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) 0.5, a complete open-source cloud infrastructure platform with a powerful management toolstack based on open APIs, support for multi-tenancy, QoS and detailed metrics for consumption based charging. The XCP 0.5 bits have been tested extensively
For those of you unable to attend the XCP Community Meeting – the minutes are now available at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XCP_Monthly_Meetings. If you did attend the meeting, please feel free to edit the wiki page to ensure that all the major issues are addressed.
Tomorrow is the XCP Community Call which will be dial-up as well as IRC chat, information below: Meeting Date: July 7, 2010 Time: 2:00 pm UK (London) /9:00 am US EST Location: IRC #xen-api on Freenode Dial-In: 1.888.371.8921 Code: 275279 International Toll
I came across a list of packages that are required to compile the latest version of Xen; simply run this command: apt-get install build-essential zlib1g-dev gawk gettext python-dev libssl-dev libx11-dev mercurial git-core curl ncurses-dev bcc iasl libpci-dev ocaml Thanks to George Dunlap for this information. From Pasi – also check out
As part of the yearly Xen.org survey results, I have created a new document “New to Xen Guide” which can assist people just starting with Xen learn about the community, projects, and where information is. This document will be in review for 1 week before I publish on the
I have finished the update of the Xen.org Wiki – http://wiki.xensource.com/ Please send any comments you have on the new Wiki to me so I can ensure that it best servers the community.
As part of the new emphasis on exposing developer activities to the broader community, I plan to highlight a few xen-devel discussions every week on this blog to allow the community a better view of developer interaction. If you have any thoughts on this new activity please let me know.
Welcome to the Xen.org weekly newsletter with a variety of information to keep you updated on all things Xen. Please feel free to contact me with suggestions for the newsletter. Xen News * XCP Community Meeting#2 – Wed July 7th at 2pm UK Time / 9 am EST; Freenode #xen-api – https:
Q2 has come to a close and I have compiled all the June data to create a Q2 Project Golden Ratio file. Here is a quick review of the results: * Q2 saw a monthly downward trend in most data as we had an upward trend in Q1; almost opposite
From Dave Scott: The third (final?) release candidate of the Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) version 0.5 is now available for testing from: http://www.xen.org/products/cloud_source_0.5.html The changes since the RC2 are: * it should now be possible to upgrade from previous RCs as
I have taken all the feedback over the past week from the community and created the final design plan for the Wiki update project – here. I will be updating the Xen.org wiki over the next few days until all items listed in this document are complete.
Xen Directions South America is still in planning stages but a number of speakers have been confirmed. Here is the current list of speakers: * Ian Pratt – Chairman Xen.org * Marco Sinhoreli – Globo.com * Boris Quiroz – Xen Spanish Community Leader * Liberie Cunha Neto – Google * Fabio Kung – Localweb * Thiago Cordeiro – Xen Live